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Well, yeah. That's what we collectively get when we turn a place to live into a for-profit hellhole where 'Money' (read: asset companies, landlords, flippers, A
by pierat 3y ago
Well, yeah. That's what we collectively get when we turn a place to live into a for-profit hellhole where 'Money' (read: asset companies, landlords, flippers, AirBNB scalpers) keep the supply so the rest of us can't actually live.
You all want to see the reality we have now? Go no further than "Married with Children", where a sole earner as a retail shoe salesman could have a 2 story house in a suburb with a car garage. Now, they'd be lucky for a 1 bedroom in a bad part of town. And this show wasn't about opulence - far from it. It was showing trashy white people and how "those" people live. And even they had a fucking house.
Same with The Simpsons. It was "normal" to have a 2 story house with a garage, in a suburb with 1 parent working out of the house, and 1 parent stay-at-home. This normal left us in the late 90's and went BOOM with the 2000 .com-bomb .
And you're getting squeezed HARD if you're in an apartment, trailer park, or trying to buy a house. Its not a place to live - it's a place to be a landlord and generate continual rent on those you're extorting. And with 40 years of deregulation and pro-capitalist pro-landlord actions and laws, this will only get worse and worse.
Biden is only the scapegoat for 40 years of terrible policy, that both the R's and D's both engaged in. Both parties extensively are part and engage in the landlord class. In fact, the constitution only initially allowed the landlord (land-owner) class to vote.
- ojbyrne 3y agoI’m not sure basing an argument on houses in television shows is useful.
- pierat 3y agoIt's not an argument on houses in TV - it's showing that it was normalized enough that popular culture considered this normal. But whatever. Shits fucked, and you're arguing over what I said was a depiction of the time? Of course it was a TV show. It was also believable in those days, even for lower class people. What's worse is now, we look at them and we can't even see us owning a house, like a lousy shoe salesman could. Seriously - can you imagine ANYONE surviving in a house or even an apartment on retail? That used to be true. No longer.
- pandaman 3y agoA lot of sitcoms were shot in front of studio audience so they used sets that were much bigger than the dwellings appropriate to the characters level of income and location. It's been noticed as early as 1953 in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. With time it became a trope and even the sitcoms w/o audience had these giant sets. Simpsons is heavily based off sitcoms.
- AnimalMuppet 3y ago> In fact, the constitution only initially allowed the landlord (land-owner) class to vote. Where? What article/paragraph/clause?